I believe the platform must be the same on both the source and target end
of the database restore[1].

As an alternative to a database restore, you could use EXPORT NODE either
directly or via removable sequential media.

[1] 
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/t_db_move_new_loc.html

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:23:12PM -0800, Nora wrote:
> Hello,
> We currently have a TSM instance running on a Solaris x86 machine, and we 
> would like to migrate it to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server. But we are 
> wondering if we can restore the orginal TSM database to the other server 
> running a different OS (Linux)?
> If it is not possible, how can we migrate all data in our archival storage 
> pool (120 GB only) to from the old TSM instance running on Solaris to the new 
> TSM instance on Linux?
>
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